Neff Tavern Smokehouse

Neff Tavern Smokehouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city:	Napton, Missouri
Coordinates:	39°5′47.62″N 93°2′38.65″W / 39.0965611°N 93.0440694°W / 39.0965611; -93.0440694Coordinates: 39°5′47.62″N 93°2′38.65″W / 39.0965611°N 93.0440694°W / 39.0965611; -93.0440694
Built:	1837
Architect:	Unknown
Architectural style:	No Style Listed
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	78001676 [1]
Added to NRHP:	November 30, 1978

The Neff Tavern Smokehouse is listed as #78001676 on the National Register of Historical Places. The building is located on the old Santa Fe Trail northeast of Napton, Missouri, off Interstate 70 and 6 miles west of Arrow Rock, Missouri.

Missouri pioneer Isaac Neff (aka Isaac Nave) was born in Tennessee in 1797 and died in Missouri in 1878. He originally built a log tavern on the site in 1837. The Santa Fe Trail went between the tavern and the barn (later a stage station), skirted the family cemetery, and continued to the northwest. The tavern was torn down in 1890. The stone smokehouse is the only remaining original structure on Neff’s former property.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 

• History of Saline County, Missouri, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo., 1881.
• The Nave Family - 500 Years: Switzerland, Tennessee, Missouri & Montana, by Arian E. Collins, Bordertown Publications, San Diego, Calif., 2006.
• History of Pioneer Families of Missouri, by William Bryan and Robert Rose, originally published by Bryan Brand & Co., St. Louis, Mo., 1876. Reprinted, Lucas Brothers, Columbia, Mo., 1935.

External links

• The Nave Family
• National Register of Historic Places